I was happy, cause I was about to install snow leopard on my old MacBook. But real world wasn't easy. Apple prevents installing bundle OS to another machine, even though it's a mac.
I had googled many sites includes macrumors.com and I found some good pages about 'How to hack snow leopard upgrade version to full version'. And finally I've figured it out solution of my case.
I KNOW IT'S ILLEGAL, BUT I'M A HUNGRY STUDENT AND I'VE BOUGHT APPLE'S STUFF ENOUGH. So, this time I did my best to use bundle snow leopard to install on my old mac for free :p.
When I tried to install bundle snow leopard on my old mac, I got a 'Mac OSX cannot be installed on this computer' message and blocked, because the install routine checks the mac's identifier. So I inserted my old mac's identifier(MacBook2,1) in the list which install routine compares with. Then everything is alright.
This is how to how to install bundle snow leopard on my old mac.
Needs
new MacBook(Snow Leopard), a old MacBook, Double Layer clean DVD.
On the new MacBook
- Open disk utility and insert your disk. Select the disk and hit new image. Save the image as cd/dvd master.
- Enable showing hidden folders/files. Open terminal and do this.
kkabdol$ defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
kkabdol$ killall Finder
- Mount the image and go into the system/Installation/Packages.
- Copy OSInstall.mpkg file to a new folder on my desktop. For example desktop/install
- Extract .mpkg file and edit Distribution file. Open terminal again and do this.
kkabdol$ cd Desktop/install
kkabdol$ xar -x -f OSInstall.mpkg
kkabdol$ rm OSInstall.mpkgkkabdol$ vi Distribution
- In Distribution file, edit this. Insert old mac's identifier and save.
var hwbeSupportedMachines = [
'MacBook6,1',
'MacBook2,1',
];
- And make new .mpkg file. Do this.
kkabdol$ xar -c -f OSInstall.mpkg *
- Replace new OSInstall.mpkg of the mounted image
- Eject the mounted image and open disk utility.
- Insert a DL(Double Layer) DVD and hit burn.
burn it at the LOWEST speed possible.
On the old MacBook
- Install the burned dvd. It's all yours.